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West Borneo, Oriental Law.

This is where the main hall of Lanfang Company is located, and it is also a completely Chinese walled city, with countless huge wooden walls, surrounded by the Hucheng River outside, there is a city gate in the southeast, northwest and northwest, which is also a wooden structure, and the city tower is juxtaposed with the tricolor flag symbolizing the Kingdom of the Netherlands and a triangular Qing dragon flag!

The scale of the walled city is not large, it is a small county seat in the top of the Qing Dynasty, there are only two cross-shaped intersecting streets, and the intersection of the two streets is the headquarters of Lanfang Company. This main hall looks like a county government of the Qing Dynasty, and at the gate of the Yamen, there is a plaque of "Lanfang Da Zong" in Chinese, and on both sides are yellow rectangular flags representing "Lanfang" and yellow triangular flags representing "Jiatai", hunting and fluttering in the wind. In the lobby, there is a gold plaque hanging, with four big characters of "Xiongzhen Huayi" written on it.

Standing guard at the gate of the Yamen were several soldiers dressed in the green battalion of the Qing Dynasty, but they were not soldiers of the Lanfang General Republic, but family members who worked hard for the Liu family of Lanfang. Now it is dark, except for these people who watch the door, the whole Lanfang company hall is empty, only one room in the backyard is still bright, through the glass window can vaguely see two figures, one standing and one sleeping.

"What kind of immortal is this Zhu Jishi? Who is the Grand Duke of Lanfang, he can decide with one word? Could it be that Lord Bonham in Singapore would listen to him? ”

In the room, an old man was lying on the smoke collapse, with a small mahogany table beside him, which was full of cigarette lamps, cigarette guns, cigarette boxes, and a handwritten letter from Zhu Jishituo Liu Peng to Dongfang Law.

"Daddy, this surname Zhu is a dog of the British, how could Lord Wen Xian listen to him? And what kind intentions can the British have, their strength is much stronger than that of the Dutch, Lan Fang's attachment to the British will inevitably be destroyed by it, and Zuihou will end up like those Indian princely states! ”

It was a little black fat man who spoke, it was Liu Aliang, the second young master of the Liu family in Lanfang, and the old man lying on the smoke collapsed was Liu Qianxing, the current wife of Lanfang Company. Hearing his son's words, Liu Qianxing nodded approvingly, and then let out a long sigh.

"Ah Liang, is there any news from Guangzhou?"

Liu Aliang shook his head and said: "Big brother has been gone for almost a year, and there has been no news yet, it seems that Daqing is now also a mud bodhisattva who has crossed the river, and it is difficult to protect himself, so he can't take care of us!" ”

The old man waved his hand, "Don't talk nonsense, we Lan Fang can maintain today's situation." He arched his hand into the air, "It's all about the prestige of the Qing Dynasty, otherwise the Dutch would have sent troops to capture our Dongfang Law a long time ago!" ”

Liu Aliang smiled bitterly, "It's not much better now, the Dutch don't come by themselves, but they instruct the sultan of the princely state to fight with us endlessly, and originally wanted to take advantage of the marriage between Luo Si and Major Andersen to win a respite, but who wanted to be disrupted by Zhu Jishi, the English dog." I heard that Anderson went straight to Wanna after leaving Singapore, and it seems that he is determined to help Wanna Sultan find us trouble! ”

"Vana Sultan?" The old man sneered, "Ah Liang, do you think that the Sultan of Wanna is still our trouble now?" ”

Liu Aliang was stunned, looked at his father and said: "Daddy, although Xindang, which the Sultan of Wanna currently covets, is the territory of the Luo family, but Xindang is the eastern gate of the Oriental Law after all, once it is taken by the Sultan of Wanna, his native soldiers will be able to advance all the way west along the Kunjiang River." ”

Liu Aliang's analysis is in line with the overall situation, but Liu Qianxing shook his head again and again when he heard it, and laughed lightly.

"Ah Liang, are you for the Luo family's Amei? I know your mind. ”

Hearing this ridicule, the little black fat man also had a red face, and the four shows of the Luo family were as beautiful as flowers, but the little black fat man's favorite was the eldest sister Luo Xiangmei, the Luo family's millions of properties were hers, and the brothers of the Sixiu Hall also looked forward to this Aunt Mei! As the second son of the family, Liu Aliang has no chance to inherit the position of the head of the family, and the next Lan Fang Jiatai will definitely not be able to take his turn, if he can become the uncle of the Luo family, it will be a good way out.

"But now is not the time for heroes to save beauty!" Liu Qianxing tapped Zhu Jishi's handwritten letter with his dry and yellowed fingers, and sneered: "Let this surnamed Zhu go to save Xindang first, and by the way, find out his bottom." ”

Liu Aliang seems to be very uneasy about Zhu Jishi.

"Daddy, if he brings the British soldiers in, how can we be ......?"

Liu Qianxing lowered his voice and said with a smile: "Take refuge!" ”

Liu Aliang's pupils constricted slightly, the old man is an old ginger! If Zhu Jishi can attract lobster soldiers, what other way out does Lanfang Company have except to hug his thigh? Moreover, the Liu family is the biggest snake in Lanfang, even if Zhu Jishi wants to be the Grand Duke of Lanfang, he has to appease the old Liu family with high-ranking officials Houlu.

"Then what if Zhu Jishi can't attract lobster soldiers?"

Liu Qianxing smiled coldly, still two words, "Wait and see!" ”

……

And at this moment, the port of Pontianak in West Borneo. Although it was already the middle of the night, several piers near the Kunjiang River were brightly lit.

A large number of boxes and purses loaded with munitions were unloaded from a Western galleon, and hundreds of Chinese laborers pushed second-in-command carts to carry things, and this corner of Pontianak Port almost became a warehouse.

Liu Peng and a few Chinese dressed as bookkeepers were sweating profusely comparing these weapons and equipment and military supplies. The muskets of the brown basses, the gunpowder and lead bullets of the Calcutta factory, the grenades of the World Bank, boxes and piles, like small hills, all the sweaty Chinese workers on the dock were hot.

Luo Xiangju, the fourth lady of the Luo family, was also on this pier, and a woman wearing a melon skin hat and a men's gown, but her chest was raised high, and her face was a little more charming and pretty than Miss Luo Si, and the woman in men's clothes also opened a box from time to time, took out the brown bass smoothbore gun inside and skillfully fiddled with it a few times, nodded and smiled at Luo Xiangju with satisfaction: "Sure enough, it is the brown bass of the Kolkata factory, not a broken gun imitated in a small workshop, this Zhu Jishi really has a way!" ”

"Eldest sister, Sir Zhu is the viscount of England! Even Lord Bonham, the Governor of the Straits Settlements, had to pay a visit in person. Miss Luo Si recounted what she saw at the Singapore branch of the World Bank that day.

And this woman who was called the eldest sister by Luo Xiangju is the head of the Lan Fangluo family, Luo Xiangmei, the master of Sixiu Hall, who is called Aunt Lan Fangmei in the rivers and lakes, or Aunt Luo (if it is a man, it is called Daddy).

Listening to her sister's words, Luo Xiangmei clapped her hands and said with a smile: "In this way, Zhu Jishi is still a great character, and he is worthy of our Sixiutang friendship." She looked at the girl with crimson cheeks, and suddenly smiled, "Fourth sister, why don't you be wronged and marry him as a viscountess, how about it?" ”

"Sister!" Luo Si stomped his feet and said coquettishly, "If you want to marry, your sister will marry first, so it is better to recruit Zhu Jishi as your son-in-law, he will be the grand duke, and you will be the grand duchess." ”

"Fourth sister, don't talk nonsense." Luo Xiangmei's face became solemn all of a sudden, and when she looked around, she saw that no one was approaching, so she sighed and said in a low voice: "Just say this in front of me, don't talk nonsense outside, if it reaches Liu Jiatai's ears, there will be a catastrophe in our Sixiu Hall!" ”

Luo Xiangju snorted and said, "Lan Fang was originally from our Luo family, how old is he Liu Qianxing?" Why do you ride on our necks? The most annoying thing is that he still forced his sister to marry his stupid son Liu Aliang, and wanted to marry me to an old Dutch man! She lowered her voice, "Sister, you might as well marry Zhu Jishi, with the support of the British, this Lanfang will be the world of our Luo family in the future!" ”

Luo Xiangmei said to her sister-in-law, and also lowered her voice, and said: "Sister, I am not alone, I will marry if I say that I will marry, thousands of brothers in Sixiutang!" Whoever wants to marry me must be able to take up this responsibility and protect his brothers from the wind and rain...... If someone can do it, I don't want him to join the Luo family, as long as there is a son surnamed Luo in the future, who can inherit the incense of Fang Bogong. ”